Feds overhaul Alabama women's prison where staff coerced sex from inmates and organized strip show
" MONTGOMERY, Ala.—An Alabama women's prison will be overhauled after the U.S. Justice Department said officers there coerced inmates into sex, watched them in showers and bathrooms and organized a New Year's Eve strip show.
The Department of Justice on Thursday filed a complaint in federal court summarizing alleged abuses at the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka, along with an accompanying settlement agreement outlining the steps the state has agreed to take to eliminate the abuses. Vanita Gupta, the Justice Department's top civil rights lawyer, said the agreement could serve as a model for other prisons."Associated Press, May 28, 2015.

Suit: City allowed Rikers officers to rape and sexually abuse inmates
"The explosive class action filed on Tuesday in federal court details reports of serial rape and sexual abuse by eight corrections officers at the all–female Rose M. Singer Center in the New York City jail complex, including a case where an inmate was dragged into a janitor's closet and another where the inmate became pregnant."CNN.com, May 22, 2015.

Arizona Worker Safety Agency Reviewing Prison Rape
"PHOENIX (AP)—Arizona's workplace safety agency confirmed Thursday that it has launched a review of the rape of a teacher inside a state prison classroom.
The teacher was alone in the room with no guard nearby when a convicted rapist assaulted her, documents state."Associated Press, June 26, 2014.

Federal report finds Alabama prison 'toxic,' female inmates abused
"The Justice Department concluded in a blistering report on Wednesday that female inmates at one Alabama prison live in a toxic environment marked by sex abuse and harassment by corrections staff.
The Department's Civil Rights Division said the Alabama Department of Corrections has repeatedly violated the women's constitutional rights at the Julia Tutwiler Prison."CNN.com, January 23, 2014.

The Latest Trend in Child Sexual Exploitation: Rape in Adult PrisonsJanuary 25, 2001, report from Joanne Mariner, FindLaw columnist, attorney, and deputy director of the Americas division of Human Rights Watch, regarding juveniles sentenced to adult penal institutions, and their increased vulnerability to sexual assault and exploitation as a result

Paying for Time[http://www.abqjournal.com/news/jails/]Series of articles from the Albuquerque Journal, January 2001, documenting abuses within New Mexico jails.

No Escape: Male Rape in U.S. PrisonsSpecial 2001 Report from Human Rights Watch regarding sexual assaults/rapes in U.S. male correctional facilities. Includes the scope of the problem, statistics, prisoners' stories, and resource links.

The Life-Style Violent JuvenileInformation on obtaining the CD version of Andrew Vachss' 1979 textbook with plans for total reform of incarceration and treatment modalities in maximum-security juvenile facilities.

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